N.Y. Public Health Law § 4176: Records; correction of defective registration

§ 4176. Records; correction of defective registration. 1. If defects

be found in the registration under the supervision of a registrar of

vital statistics, the commissioner shall notify such registrar that such

defects must be corrected within ten days of the date of the notice.

2. If such defects are not so corrected the commissioner shall take

control of such registration and of the records thereof, and enforce the

rules and regulations in regard thereto and secure a complete

registration in such district, and such control shall continue until the

registrar of vital statistics shall satisfy the commissioner that he

will make such record and registry complete as required by law and in

the sanitary code.

3. The expenses incurred by the commissioner or his authorized

representative while in control of such registration shall be a charge

upon the city, town or village comprising the registration district.

4. No certificate of birth or death, after its acceptance for

registration by the registrar, and no new certificate or other record

made in pursuance of this article, shall be altered or changed in any

respect except to correct errors made in completing the certificate by

the person responsible for preparing the certificate or as otherwise

provided in this article. The commissioner shall provide the application

form for a correction of a record which must be properly dated, signed

and witnessed, or subscribed and affirmed by the persons making them as

true under the penalties of perjury, together with such supporting

proofs as may be prescribed by the commissioner.